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The Biden administration intends to send more than a billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine by the end of the year, officials said Tuesday. That includes $1.2 billion still left from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, Defense…

Russian general dead in MoscowThe general in charge of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons was killed outside his apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday. His name was Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, and he reportedly perished along…

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will push Ukraine’s president to negotiate with Russia for a ceasefire after he takes office next month. But just days earlier, a Ukrainian lawmaker told reporters in Washington, D.C., that a…

A number of U.S. military commands failed to keep a complete and accurate inventory of mobile devices used to store and transmit classified information, according to a heavily redacted Defense Department oversight report.The findings from…

While Syria is shifting to new management, Israel is attacking the country’s arsenals and infrastructure. On Monday, military jets struck former air defense sites and missile warehouses along the country’s western coast in the early morning…

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The night the EMTs carried Elizabeth Nakagawa from her home, bleeding and in pain, the tarp they’d wrapped her in reminded her of a body bag.Nakagawa, 39, is a Coast Guard commander: stoic,…

NATO’s new chief wants more defense spending across Europe, where nations should shift to a “wartime mindset,” Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday in Brussels. “It is true that we spend more on defense now than we did a decade ago,”…

Future of UkraineRussian invasion forces are advancing again in eastern Ukraine, approaching within roughly six kilometers of Pokrovsk, which the New York Times describes as “a key rail and road hub for Ukraine’s army.”Russian troops are…

Deportation watchMore immigrants came to the U.S. during President Biden’s first few years than at any similar point in American history, including the famous Ellis Island period, David Leonhardt of the New York Times reported Wednesday,…

Extreme weather is creating fertile ground for conflict in multiple regions of Africa, the Pentagon’s top Africa official said Tuesday.It’s also threatening the U.S.’s ability to maintain military bases like Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, on the…